Huh?
I thought the trio which had the least screentime together was the BBS crew as well as the least development of their actual friendship?
I disagree, if only because now we have 0.2 which adds a bit more to their friendship. Even in KH2 we didn't see that level of heartfelt longing to find Riku or Kairi from Sora. And in KH3D, Kairi is barely a footnote in a game that prides itself on bonds.
I don't know, they always seemed like their friendship was genuine, and that it felt like we could identify with it since the first game. You always got the sense that all three of them enjoyed each other's company and were sad to see each other go, and you didn't even need that much time with them starting off. Although I'll agree with you that they're not as developed as Xion, Axel, and Roxas were.
I don't disagree that they are genuine. They just are really lacking in a lot of things that make them really, truly a trio. Most of the "big" moments they have with each other are always in pairs.
You sure you don't mean that the BbS trio is the most underdeveloped friendship in the entire Kingdom Hearts Universe? I mean, they had a storyline literally CENTERED AROUND THE FACT that they were best friends and could see each other constantly, so there was no excuse of absence in the story, and we STILL felt nothing for them until the finale and 0.2. At least in Kingdom Hearts I the writing was better and it was established that the trio couldn't contact each other constantly throughout the story.
I'm honestly biased because I love BBS (and it helped me through a rough time) and thought they came off a lot better than SRK because it felt like we were jumping into their friendship after years of being together like one big, happy family and this was their first big conflict with each other.
With SRK, it feels like we came in with three kids who were friends but were already starting to grow distant from each other and beginning to move onto different parts of their lives. They still were fond of each other and knew how to have fun, but then when the dust cleared the distance would fill the void. Sora was jealous of Riku, Riku was jealous of Sora, there was a bit of a crush thrown in there with Kairi, and Kairi was kind of off doing her own thing away from everybody.
I love your wording "pal around and be dorks", that's me and my girlfriend right there xD
c: Aw, that is a good relationship then!
Actually if I think about it now, in the first game they looked more like "couple with a crush and some jerk" with that constant rivalry between Sora and Riku and whole thing with "I'm gonne eat paopu with Kairi/I care about Kairi most" and "lol let's go together and leave Riku. JK but consider it". Only in second KH it started to look like a real trio (but actually it sometimes looked like Kairi mostly cared only about Sora and Riku just kinda happened to help her first) but then got kind of blurry again with Coded and 3D completely pushing Kairi away and getting time to develop Sora and Riku's friendship furthermore. I mean it's not bad at all that they did that in favor of showing how Riku overcomes his darkness and his and Sora's close ties. But hey, remember how you trying to call all of them trio of friends. I really wish we'd see them three in KH3 and won't get those strictly pair interactions again.
Yes, yes exactly this.